You have been driving for a while. You have gotten to the point of taking the car for granted. It is an amazing piece of engineering, that is so common, you forget sometimes that it takes a lot to go forward.
You have fine tuned your engine to run at maximum output with the best possible efficiency.
Everything about your vehicle is in tip top condition, except you forgot the tires.
So there you sit, in a mud puddle, or grass, or slick asphalt, spinning your wheels. You have a machine that can race against any car out there, but you are stuck at the starting line.
When you slam your foot down on the pedal, you get no where. You need to take a deep breath. You need to take it slow. Give your incredible machine some time to build momentum.
Eventually, you will get up to speed and being a force to reckon with.
You are a brilliant person. You have ideas that come to you all the time. The trouble is, you have a hard time convincing people that the idea is a reasonable, and valid path to take.
When that happens, you get flustered and frustrated and walk away in disgust.
You played baseball or softball right. Remember the first lesson about fielding grounders? Stay with the ball.
Wait, the first rule was, “Keep your eye on the ball”. Then, “Stay with the ball”.
Either way, stay with the idea. Let it be rejected, for now. Find out why it didn’t get put through. Tune it up and tweak the details.
Then push it back through. It is a great idea, it just needs some grease on the wheels. If you do not stick with the idea, you will see it rolling out under someone else’s banner a few miles down the road.
At that point, all you have is shrugging shoulders and a pathetic, “That was my idea” on your lips.
